Crossfit Six Ten

2- In the final part of this case study, Roger Williams was making plans to create a business continuity plan for its information. Why do you think the hospital had not already developed such a plan in the event of a disaster? How is HP’s new IT infrastructure going to help Roger Williams build a robust business continuity plan?
The hospital had not already developed a continuity plan for its information in the event of a disaster because Roger Williams Medical Center did not know that it would gain the large amount of information it did.
HP’s new IT infrastructure will help Roger Williams build a robust business continuity plan because the new IT infrastructure will help the hospital achieve scalability, availability, and the performance required to process and store information with its new applications. By achieving scalability, Roger Williams will be able to add information as well as change information within a system easily. By achieving availability, the hospital will be able to have the information available when needed. By achieving the performance required to process and store information with its new applications, the hospital will be able to have enough processing power to work with the new applications and store large quantities of data.

3- According to the network infrastructures we discussed in this chapter, how would you characterize Roger Williams’ new IT infrastructure? Justify your answer.
I would say there new IT infrastructure is more of an n-tier infrastructure. With them already having 41 servers that connect to a storage area network with 4 terabytes of capacity, BladeServer systems, and then adding 11 more servers to expand the user-facing applications this could be viewed as the N-tier infrastructure. They are able to expand on it which would allow for greater…...

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